Posted on 04/27/2022 6:31:08 AM PDT by shadowlands1960
A left-wing government watchdog group with a dubious history is demanding Apple engage in mass preemptive censorship with the removal of a free-speech-branded alternative to Twitter from its app store.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent a four-page letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday urging the American tech executive to nuke former President Donald Trump’s new platform, Truth Social, from its digital marketplace despite no violations of company guidelines.
“The events of January 6, 2021 highlighted not only democracy’s vulnerabilities, but also the risks associated with the current ecosystem of online speech,” wrote CREW President Noah Bookbinder in the letter. “Every company that now enters into business with Trump must recognize that it is essentially endorsing this dangerous and anti-democratic conduct.”
With not a single post from the entire platform cited or a single company policy violated to justify the app’s removal, Bookbinder argued Truth Social’s association with Trump was enough reason alone to ban the product from the Apple marketplace.
“Unchecked threats to reliable information imperil our civic institutions, social stability, and democratic norms,” Bookbinder wrote, implying that inadequate censorship of dissident ideas is a threat to democracy.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
CREW is headed up by this little man, Noah Bookbinder. He has a complex.
He’s the same loser who lost in court on the emoluments clause case against President Trump.
And, boy, does this little wimp have sour grapes over it.
Judge tosses emoluments clause lawsuit against Trump over business ties
U.S. District Judge George Daniels said it was too soon for the lawsuit to be considered by the courts, particularly because Congress had not taken up the issue.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-tosses-emoluments-clause-lawsuit-against-trump-over-business-ties-n832021?cid=par-synacor_20171222&cid=par-sy-mediacom
SCOTUS NEWS
Justices vacate rulings on Trump and emoluments
https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/01/justices-vacate-rulings-on-trump-and-emoluments/
““Unchecked threats to reliable information...”
They forgot to add, “... from the ministry of truth.”
Orwell was a prophet.
Here we go...if you use a licensed business as a political entity (Disney) without establishing a political entity for that purpose, you open up yourself to a can of whoop-ass! All that matters is who’s in charge of the state gubmint where your business license resides!
“wrote CREW President Noah Bookbinder in the letter”
Oh, the irony. His surname tells us that he comes from ancestors who made a living disseminating information, and now he is making a living trying to suppress information.
And free drugs to treat your AIDS afterwards!
Not Liberal Loonies. Its a CIA Psy-op to shut down Truth Social.
Citizens for Responsibility for Endless Woke (CREW)
Translation completed
It makes sense that Truth Social wanted to keep out of the limelight the first couple months and make everybody think it was a failure. This gave them time to stay under the radar while they worked out the bugs.
Now they've been ported to Rumble Cloud and are adding almost 200,000 new users every day for the past 5 days.
Tim Cook recently told Zuckerberg to go fly a kite. I’m sure the response to this gang of fascists will be the same.
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